Hi ppkers who draw and welcome back to one of my favourite threads. (And many thanks to the ppker who started the old thread!)I'm currently working on a series I call "Monsters". Experimental I-never-learned-crosshatching technique using an assortment of cheap black pens. I hope that when the series is complete I can find a way to scan them all and post them here. (I really miss the fabulous scanner at my old office!) What are you working on?

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Phoenix wrote:

alice1drland wrote:

buttz.

Aaaargh! So cool. I wouldn't even know in which direction all the lines should go. *hangs head*

In all honesty it's not really so much an issue of which direction the lines should go, even though it might seem that way. Some lines follow the contours of the body, but you can see that some are just haphazardly going in whichever direction, just as long as they're filling space with shadow and delineating highlights wherever the lines don't exist. Did that even make sense? And in my experience, cross-hatching looks much better when you just overlap lines that run parallel to one another, going in the same direction, rather than doing the "I'm making a bunch of 'x's" thing.

I didn't draw this from memory by any means, I saw the image in a book and drew it freehandedly. It's awesome practice in so many ways.

I am impressed with the PPK collective drawing ability. One day I'll have time to actually draw things other than really tall and thin women wearing clothes again.

Here are some recent illustrations I did for an imaginary collection I designed. I try and get away with making my figures as not tall, thin and freakish as my instructors like and I always get called out on it! It's not my typical illustration style, but since it's a lower level class computer aided rendering is banned.

my most recent piece - done with chinese ink on illustration board. the project was "envisioning information/data." only YOU GUYS will forking recognise these people and what the images represent. no one in my class did.

my most recent piece - done with chinese ink on illustration board. the project was "envisioning information/data." only YOU GUYS will forking recognise these people and what the images represent. no one in my class did.